With another great ski and ride season just around the corner our summer news hiatus is officially over, and you can now once again find news and feature articles updated daily at our home page, www.FirstTracksOnline.com. Welcome back!

No, it's what the editor (who otherwise has another full-time job, yet devotes countless hours to FTO) wants. Or at least has wanted for the past couple of summers. Whether or not the hiatus pattern will continue in subsequent years has yet to be determined.

For example, said editor started working on stories at 8 a.m. yesterday, and hasn't stopped since.